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krj
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response 218 of 228:
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Jul 6 18:57 UTC 2001 |
Much of the previous discussion about the band Cordelia's Dad went
in this item, so I'll paste in this e-mail from them:
From: Cordelia88@aol.com
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 09:33:17 EDT
Subject: Cordelia's Dad rocks on Friday
Hello,
Cordelia's Dad will be playing some of the rock and roll music this Friday
(tomorrow), July 6, at the Flywheel in Easthampton, Mass. It's all ages.
There are four bands, the first of whom start playing at 8pm: Years Apart,
Ellison, Tizzy, and us. We stop playing at 11:30. We'll be playing a bunch of
songs that will be on our next album, which we are currently finishing mixing
for Kimchee Records.
We hope to see you there.
-peter irvine
Cordelia's Dad
www.cordeliasdad.com
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Sounds like the band has taken yet another drastic change in direction,
since their last album was the militantly traditional "Spine," produced
by Steve Albini. Still, this is good news, since I had thought they were
likely to break up, with two of the key members doing solo albums and
the third in law school.
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anderyn
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response 219 of 228:
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Jul 7 23:40 UTC 2001 |
I am happy about this, too. Cordelia's Dad has always been an interesting
band.
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krj
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response 220 of 228:
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Jul 8 06:00 UTC 2001 |
Michelle Shocked is playing the Ark on Monday?? How did this almost
slip by? Are there tickets left? Do I care like I did 12 years ago?
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katie
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response 221 of 228:
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Jul 8 20:01 UTC 2001 |
I'm going to see her!
I wouldn't miss it.
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krj
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response 222 of 228:
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Jul 9 05:00 UTC 2001 |
I got the next-to-last Michelle Shocked ticket from the allocation at
the downtown Borders.
The unofficial web page reports that she has a dub album for sale only
at gigs, so bring a few extra dollars if you want one. This would
be Ms. Shocked's fourth limited-release album, and the web page
says a new broad-release album is scheduled for the fall.
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dbratman
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response 223 of 228:
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Jul 9 07:09 UTC 2001 |
resp:218 - "militantly traditional"?
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mcnally
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response 224 of 228:
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Jul 9 22:29 UTC 2001 |
re #223, #218: I think I can understand "militantly traditional", it's
just the combination of "militantly traditional" and Steve Albini that's
afflicting me with cognitive dissonance..
re #222: I'm not parsing very well today, I guess.. It took me almost a
full minute to realize that when Ken talks about Michelle Shocked selling
a limited release "dub album" that he doesn't mean the sort of album I
think of when I think "dub album" (or does he? I presume he means it's a
soundboard recording from one of her tours and not a collection of studio-
remixed instrumental cuts of her work..)
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krj
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response 225 of 228:
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Jul 10 03:39 UTC 2001 |
Cordelia's Dad and their "militantly traditional" stage: they were being
fanatical purists, as revivalists, in a way that musicians who grow
up in the tradition rarely are. Remember that Cordelia's Dad started
out in a style which I describe as "The Ramones Play Folk Music," and
from that beginning, they moved to a more and more acoustic and
traditional presentation. About the time the Steve Albini
purist album was released, I saw them at a workshop stage at the
Philadelphia Folk Festival, and their attitude was, "this is REAL
folk music and you will LISTEN and APPRECIATE it, it's GOOD FOR YOU
and you could see the folk festival audience getting somewhat cranky... i
maybe it was just the afternoon heat...
Mike: Michelle Shocked's limited-release album "Dub Natural"
is (reportedly) a remixed version of the basic instrumental tracks from
her forthcoming mainstream album "Deep Natural," so this is, at least
conceptually, dub as you know it. I got a copy at the show tonight
and will have more to say after I play it.
And I will have to write up something about the Michelle Shocked concert
-- probably it will just be a memory dump from my scribbled setlist notes
-- but this was one of the great, great concerts. I was dazzled.
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krj
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response 226 of 228:
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Jul 10 03:50 UTC 2001 |
("militantly traditional": see my resp:71 in this very item, from
shortly after the concert...)
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krj
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response 227 of 228:
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Aug 9 16:08 UTC 2001 |
This weekend (Friday-Saturday-Sunday) the National Folk Festival will
be held in downtown East Lansing. It's free, though there will be
plenty of opportunity to spend on food, drinks and cds.
Last year's festival was a lot of fun. Schedule is at: http://www.nff.net
The biggest names appearing are probably Doc Watson, the Mahotella
Queens from South Africa, Barachois from Atlantic Canada, Cherish
the Ladies, and the Hot Club of Cowtown.
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happyboy
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response 228 of 228:
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Aug 9 18:42 UTC 2001 |
saw barachois last month at bliss
saw the mahotela queens a few years back at frog island
I WANT TO SEE DOC WATSON, never seen the ol dude
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